The role of meaning and form similarity in translation recognition in highly proficient balanced bilinguals: A behavioral and ERP study

Moldovan, Cornelia D.; Demestre, Josep; Ferré, Pilar; Sánchez‐Casas, Rosa

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2015.07.002

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“…Mean N400 amplitude was calculated for each subject at each ROI between 300 and 500 ms separately for pairs of words with congruent and incongruent gender. The time window for the N400 was consistent with previous studies (e.g., Guo, Misra, Tam & Kroll, 2012; Ma, Chen, Guo & Kroll, 2017; Moldovan, Demestre, Ferré & Sánchez-Casas, 2016).…”

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The gender congruency effect in Catalan–Spanish bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

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The present study examines whether processing a word in one language is affected by the grammatical gender of its translation equivalent in another language. To this end, a group of Catalan–Spanish bilinguals performed a translation–recognition task while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Participants were presented with Catalan and Spanish pairs of words and had to decide if they were translation equivalents. Correct translations included words that were gender congruent (estiuMAS/veranoMAS–summer) or gender incongruent (tardorFEM/otoñoMAS–autumn). The behavioral results showed that participants were faster and more accurate in the gender-congruent condition than in the incongruent condition. The ERP data showed a reduced N400 for the congruent condition. The facilitative effect of gender congruency observed in this study constitutes evidence of the obligatory access to grammatical gender information during bare noun processing and suggests that the bilinguals’ gender systems interact, even in highly proficient early bilinguals.

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The gender congruency effect in Catalan–Spanish bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

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“…On critical trials, the L1 target is not the correct translation (e.g., ajo ) of the L2 prime (e.g., garlic for Spanish–English bilinguals), but is related to it either in form (e.g., ojo is a form neighbor of ajo , but has the semantically unrelated meaning ‘eye’) or meaning (e.g., cebolla means ‘onion’; e.g., Talamas et al, 1999 ). In proficient bilinguals, both form and semantic distractors produce behavioral interference effects (i.e., slower and less accurate responses compared to unrelated incorrect translations; e.g., Altarriba and Mathis, 1997 ; Ferré et al, 2006 ; Moldovan et al, 2016 ). This suggests that both the meanings and the form of the translation equivalents are activated and make it more difficult to reject the distractors as incorrect translations.…”

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“…However, at a 300 ms SOA, the effect for form distractors within the P200 window disappeared. This prompted the authors to suggest that semantic representations were activated before the L1 translation equivalents (see also, Moldovan et al, 2016 ). Guo et al’s (2012 ) electrophysiological data and SOA manipulations provided detailed time-course information that supports semantics as a primary source of translation priming for proficient bilinguals.…”

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An ERP Investigation of L2–L1 Translation Priming in Adult Learners

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A longstanding debate centers around how beginning adult bilinguals process words in their second language (L2). Do they access the meaning of the L2 words directly or do they first activate the native language (L1) translation equivalents in order to access meaning? To address this question, we used ERPs to investigate how newly learned L2 words influence processing of their L1 translation equivalents. We taught participants the meanings of 80 novel L2 (pseudo)words by presenting them with pictures of familiar objects. After 3 days of learning, participants were tested in a backward translation priming paradigm with a short (140 ms) stimulus onset asynchrony. L1 targets preceded by their L2 translations elicited faster responses and smaller amplitude negativities than the same L1 targets preceded by unrelated L2 words. The bulk of the ERP translation priming effect occurred within the N400 window (350–550 ms), suggesting that the new L2 words were automatically activating their semantic representations. A weaker priming effect in the preceding window (200–350 ms) was found at anterior sites, providing some evidence that the forms of the L1 translation equivalents had also been activated. These results have implications for models of L2 processing at the earliest stages of learning.

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“…The design of this experiment and the stimuli included were the same as for the second task. Previous studies using translation recognition tasks have reported significant through-translation interference effects when primes and targets were not translation equivalents but contained form similarities (e.g., Ferré, Sánchez-Casas, & Guasch, 2006;Guasch, Sánchez-Casas, Ferré, & García-Albea, 2008;Guo et al, 2012;Ma, Chen, Guo, & Kroll, 2017;Moldovan, Demestre, Ferré, & Sánchez-Casas, 2016;Moldovan, Sánchez-Casas, Demestre, & Ferré, 2012), which indicates that translation equivalents were activated. For example, in Guo et al (2012), Chinese-English bilinguals conducted an English-Chinese (L2-L1) translation recognition task.…”

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Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling

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2018

Journal of Memory and Language

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The role of meaning and form similarity in translation recognition in highly proficient balanced bilinguals: A behavioral and ERP study

Cited by 18 publications

References 16 publications

The gender congruency effect in Catalan–Spanish bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

The gender congruency effect in Catalan–Spanish bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

An ERP Investigation of L2–L1 Translation Priming in Adult Learners

Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling

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